Feminist Confrontation and Resistance in Hanan al-Shaykh's Beirut Blues

An epistolary novel, Beirut Blues was

written by Lebanese writer Hanan alShaykh. She was born in the year 1945 in

Beirut, Lebanon, to a strict Shia family.

Her first novel Suicide of a Dead Man

was published in 1967.She worked as a

journalist in Beirut in television and for a

newspaper Al- Nahar. Due to the

Lebanese Civil War (1975 to 1990), she

left for Saudi Arabia in 1976 and lived

there until 1982 and moved to London.

Some of her novels are The Story of

Zahra (1980), Women of Sand and Myrrh

(1989), Beirut Blues (1992), The

Occasional Virgin (2018) and Only in

London (2000). She wrote her novels in

Arabic and it was translated into English.

The novel Beirut Blues was taken for

study. It presented the blues of Lebanese

civil war and its effects on the people